AU2003301128A1 - Method and apparatus for generating prefetches - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for generating prefetches

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AU2003301128A1
AU2003301128A1 AU2003301128A AU2003301128A AU2003301128A1 AU 2003301128 A1 AU2003301128 A1 AU 2003301128A1 AU 2003301128 A AU2003301128 A AU 2003301128A AU 2003301128 A AU2003301128 A AU 2003301128A AU 2003301128 A1 AU2003301128 A1 AU 2003301128A1
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generating prefetches
prefetches
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Shailender Chaudhry
Marc Tremblay
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Sun Microsystems Inc
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    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3861—Recovery, e.g. branch miss-prediction, exception handling
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    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/30098—Register arrangements
    • G06F9/30105—Register structure
    • G06F9/30116—Shadow registers, e.g. coupled registers, not forming part of the register space
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    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3824—Operand accessing
    • G06F9/383—Operand prefetching
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    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
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    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3836—Instruction issuing, e.g. dynamic instruction scheduling or out of order instruction execution
    • G06F9/3842—Speculative instruction execution
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3836—Instruction issuing, e.g. dynamic instruction scheduling or out of order instruction execution
    • G06F9/3851—Instruction issuing, e.g. dynamic instruction scheduling or out of order instruction execution from multiple instruction streams, e.g. multistreaming

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JP (1) JP2006518053A (en)
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